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Submarines Built in Burrard Inlet
By David Shirlaw (Additional information contributed by Hillar Kalmar)
During the First World War Canada had two submarines in commission, the Seattle-built HMCS CC-1 and
CC-2 and eleven more built in Burrard...
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Submarines Built in Burrard Inlet
By David Shirlaw (Additional information contributed by Hillar Kalmar)
During the First World War Canada had two submarines in commission, the Seattle-built HMCS CC-1 and
CC-2 and eleven more built in Burrard Inlet.
James Venn Paterson of Seattle was involved in all of them.
In the Spring of 1915 Paterson received an order from the Electric Boat Company for five submarines for
Russia, shipyards in B.
C.
were busy with other work.
His solution was to organize the British Pacific
Construction and Engineering Company, incorporated in British Columbia with offices in Vancouver.
British Pacific would build the submarines in Burrard Inlet, watched over by Paterson and a representative
of the Electric Boat Company.
This was to satisfy US neutrality which meant that they could not legally
build submarines for combatants.
The submarine design chosen was the US H-Class from the Electric Boat Company.
In addition to
submarines for Russia, seve
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